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This document discusses various types of computer input devices and methods. It begins by defining input as hardware that allows users to enter data, programs, commands, and responses into a computer. Some key input types and devices discussed include keyboards, mice, scanners, digital cameras, microphones, and touchscreens. The document also covers input connection ports, different pointing devices, and methods for entering text, audio, video, images, and other media. Wireless, automatic, and intelligent input methods are briefly described as well.

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Lec 6 Chap 5 F 04

This document discusses various types of computer input devices and methods. It begins by defining input as hardware that allows users to enter data, programs, commands, and responses into a computer. Some key input types and devices discussed include keyboards, mice, scanners, digital cameras, microphones, and touchscreens. The document also covers input connection ports, different pointing devices, and methods for entering text, audio, video, images, and other media. Wireless, automatic, and intelligent input methods are briefly described as well.

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Lecture 6 / Chapter 5

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General Items:

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Input devices
- Hardware devices allowing us to enter
o DATA, PROGRAMS, COMMANDS, USER RESPONSE
- Examples: Keyboard, mouse, scanner, digital camera, etc.

How are the labs coming?


Any questions?
Some notes on your grades!
Please dont use your neighbors answers in the quiz
Got all your grades?
Can you download everything?
Emails? Got my email response?

Instructions
Programs
Commands
User Resp.

Reading Materials:
Miscellaneous:
Input
Types

Data
Text
Audio
Video/Image

Entery
point
p
o
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t
Connection

Input
Device

System Unit
Memory

Processor

Where does the input go?

Input types:
- Data: Collection of raw, unprocessed facts, figures, symbols
Data -> Computer Process -> Information
- Instructions: Another form of input telling the computer what to do
o Programs (Word Processor)
Series of instructions indicating HOW to perform tasks
o Commands (Spell Check)
An instruction to execute a program/action
Can be in menu-driven (GUI) or text format
o User Response (Print dialog box)
An instruction the user issues in response to a computer prog.
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Entry types

Input device connection


- Port types: USB, Parallel, Serial, etc.

Video
Audio
Image
Graphics

Microphone
Mouse

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Pointing devices

What is the big idea?


Automatic

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Causing Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) due to prolong use


of computer mouse and keyboard
Carpal Tunnel syndrome
Everyday a million people miss work due to such injuries!
Congress rejected employers responsibilities Claiming
there is no Proof!

- Manual, Automatic, Wireless, Intelligent detection

Input
Manual
type/Entry
keyboard
Text

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Wireless

Intelligent
detection
Wireless KB Gesture
Recognition

- An input device that allows you control the pointer on the screen
o The pointer allows us to run a program/enter a response/input, etc.
o Pointer types: I-beam, Black arrow, pointing hand
- Examples: Mouse, Joystick, Pointing stick, Trackball, Touchpad, etc.

Digital Camera
Scanner/DC

Keyboards

- Used for manual entry of text


- Types:
o QWERTY: first six leftmost letters
Used to be Dvorak letters placed based on their usage freq.
Goes back to 1868 when typewriters were invented!
o Enhanced: consists of 12 function keys, CNTL keys, ALT keys,
number pad, and arrow keys (101 or 85 keys)
o Cordless: a wireless keyboard inferred waves, radio frequency
o Optical keyboards (type in space!)
o Portable: they can be attached or removed used for handheld
devices
o Ergonomic: a more comfortable type of keyboard design

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Pointing devices

Mouse:
- Analog or digital device?
- Mouse types:
o Mechanical mouse
o Optical mouse (laser or optical sensors)
typically more precise and easier to keep it clean
o Cordless mouse
- How does it work?
- Basic mouse operations:
o Point, Click, Drag, Zoom!
- Mouse for left-handed people! (10 % of people are left-handed)
- A little history:
o Invented in 1968 funded by NASA and Defense Dep.
o Redesigned 10 years later
o Used in Apple Computer in 1980
o Mother of all other pointing devices!
Trackball:
Like a mechanical mouse but the ball is on the top
Touchpad:
o Also called Trackpad; functions like a mouse
o Typically used in notebook computers
o A flat pad sensitive to pressure or conductive materials
o So how does it work?
Joystick:
o Used for games; what kind?
o Can be connected to a game port or USB port
Stylus and Light Pen:
o Look like a ballpoint pen
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Other types of inputs

Does not understand the meaning of the speech


Only recognize the input based on pre-define words
Voice recognition software types:
Speaker-dependent, Speaker-independent;
Discrete speech recognition / continuous SR
A sophisticated software is capable to learn new words
Youre right?
ADC

Your write
Youre write
..

Your, youre/
Right. Write

Natural Language
Engine

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o Very useful for finger free applications


o Detects pressure or presence or light
o Used for precision tasks / e-signature (grocery store) /
Handwriting recognition / PDAs
Touch Screen:
o Touch sensitive display (monitors, etc.)
o Examples: ATM machine/ your neighborhood mechanic shop
Pointing Stick:
- Typically in the keyboard
- Uses pressure / more like a static mouse
- Invented by IBM on their early notebook computers

A little about Digital Pens

- Useful for hand-free applications


- Some come with hand-writing recognition software
o PDA
o Character-by-character
o What about a remote digital pen? (VPen)
o Imagine.
Using your digital pen to take notes
Exchange notes on a flash-memory

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PDAs and Smart phones:

Audio:
- Process of entering data by using a microphone or MIDI interface
o Recording , Manipulating voice
o Voice recognition technology ability to distinguish spoken words

Mic.

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Matching
Programs

- The data can be input into a PDA in many different ways:


o Stylus pen, mini-keyboard, on-screen keyboard, scanner, etc.
- Smart phones can support
o Voice, SMS (Short message service), MMS (multimedia
messaging service)
o Messaging is cheaper!

Video:

- Process of entering full-motion recording into a computer


- Examples: Video capture card (expansion card); Digital video camera;
Web cams
o convert analog signals into digital
- Some web cams are live San Diego Zoo
- Video Compression:
o Used to avoid creating large data files
o A 3-min video clip can be as big as 50 million pages of text!!
o Only uses the useful content and the part that is changed
o Decompression is used via a video decoder card
o Video digitizer is used to change frame position and lots more
o What is a common video format?

Digital Images:

- Process of entering digital images into the computer


- The idea is to capture the image digitally; then we can print it, manipulate
it, or simply store it
- Examples: Digital camera, Scanner

Digital camera:

- Provides digital images and photographs

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- The image is downloaded into the computer


- Types: Studio, Field, Point-and-shoot cameras
- Different in quality, zooming capacity, attachments, etc.
- Quality is measured by Resolution: Sharpness and Clearness of an image
- Can be measured in Pixels (picture element) more pixel better quality
o Typically expressed in Mega Pixels (1.1, 1.3, 6.1)
o To print photographs larger than 5x7 inches, we need about 2 MP
o 4-MP camera is about $1000
o Resolution can also be measured in Pixel Per Inch (ppi):
o Number of pixels vertically and horizontally
o 1600 x 1200 1600 pixels per inch vertically and 1200/inch
horizontally Equivalent to 2-megapixels
o Typically between 640x480 and 2160x1440 ppi
o Low ppi requires less storage room
- Resolution can also be measured in number of bits stored in a dot:
o A dot can be represented by one or more bits (the more the better)
o For example 30-48 bits per dot is equivalent to 600-3000 dpi

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Scanner and optical readers:

- Automatic capture of the data from the source document


- Example of such devices: Optical Scanners, Optical character recognition
devices, bar-code scanner, etc.

Scanners:

- It is a light-sensing device reads the source document


- Basic types: Pen, sheet-feed, drum
- Used for image processing: displaying, printing, and manipulating
images (Image processing system)
- Special features:
o OCR software (Optical Character Recognition)
o It reads and converts image into text
o Can it read your handwriting?
- The quality is measured by number of bits stored in a dot or Pixel Per
Inch (ppi)

Optical Readers:

- It is a devices which uses light source to read characters


o It distinguishes characters based on the light patterns
- Examples: Optical Character Recognizing, Bar Code Scanner, Optical
Mark Recognition
- Optical Character Recognizing: Check processors in grocery stores, Bill
processors
- Bar Code Scanner
o A bar code is an identification code representing manufacturer,
size, product number, etc.
- Optical Mark Recognition: Used for reading survey forms, questionnaire
answer sheets
Ever tried to copy or scan your passport?

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Terminals:

- Three basic types:


o Dumb terminals only transmit data over the network
o Smart terminals capable of processing the data as well
o Special purpose Point-of-sale (POS), Smart Display (in your
refrigerator!)
Self-check-out machines in your local grocery store
How accurate are they?

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Summary
Input
type/Entry
Text
Video
Audio
Image
Graphics

Manual

Automatic

keyboard
Microphone
Mouse

Wireless

Intelligent
detection
Wireless KB Cam2Pan

Digital Camera
Scanner/Dig.Cam

Wireless inputs:

- Entering the data remotely


- Examples: UPS Handheld Monitors, Inventory devices in grocery stores

Inputting via human gestures:

- Biometric technology
o Authenticating identity by verifying personal characteristics
o Biometric devices translate personal characteristics into digital
information
o Examples: Finger prints, Hand geometry, Iris pattern in your eyes,
voice recognition
o In 2003, over 1 billion dollars in sale!
- Allows interfacing with computers through natural gestures Hot
research area!
- Much of this technology is used for security
o
- Can be used for games or people with disabilities
- Examples: Gesture Recognition (Cam2Pan), Computer implant devices
o Reading sign language
o Track your eyes
o Tracking your thoughts with implanted devices??? WOW!

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Quiz:
Name four different types of inputs.
Where does an input go to?
How do they quantify the Resolution of a digital camera?

What is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition)?

Name two biometric devices

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